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              CA BI T-2034 · Item · 1982
              Part of Sound and Moving Image Collection

              Biographical Sketch
              Genealogy of the Loch Lomond MacDonald'
              Farming in the early days
              Dominion Coal Company cut lumber at Silver Mine
              Describes the operation, log bridge built across the river
              The log drive to the sawmill...
              Describes the process of hauling logs to the river
              Logs provided lumber for company houses
              Started school at age of 10
              His first teacher, Jessie Morrison
              Far from school, boarded with his aunt...
              Describes the school, how it was heated, the discipline
              Left school after grade 5
              Started working at the Steel Plant, 1926
              During Depression, little work - plant worked 2 days a week
              Women were hired during the War (WW II)
              Work on the farm - what the women did - the day's routine

              Food - fish, how it was preserved
              Making farm implement
              Hay making in the early days
              Dairy proucts - keeping milk cold
              The arrival of cream separators, their care
              His father was postmaster, 1912
              Carried mail to Salmon River, $1 a trip
              Discusses operation of the post office & mail route
              First post office at Loch Lomond
              News papers - Sydney (N.S.) Weekly Post, Family Herald
              Wages at the Steel Plants after the War
              Describes work at the Plant
              United Steel Workers Union didn't get started until after 1941
              The Plant Council...
              Life on the farm - kerosene lamps, wood stoves...
              Water from the well - never frozen because of its depth
              When the mine started, the well went dry
              No social activities in his youth
              Church history - lay preachers in the earliest times
              Present church built in 1910
              United Church at Loch Lomond opened 1929
              The first ministers...
              Dissension and division over the union
              Choir made up of older people
              Prayer meetings held in school once a week
              Gaelic the only language spoken at home; few could repeat it
              His thoughts on Gaelic Today
              He and all his brothers & sisters, born at home, delivered by a midwife, Peggy Currie
              Never felt that his likfe lacked anything
              Discusses food on the farm; potatoes & turnip the only vegetables
              Implements manufactured in the forge
              Four blacksmiths in the area, he gives their names; none today
              Names 3 merchants that were in the area at the time
              Pioneer craftes, processing wool
              Describes his trip to North Uist, his search for information on Malcolm "The Carpnter"
              Describes the Presbyterian Church in Scotland, his impression
              Describes a Gaelic service he attended
              Sunday laws stricty bserved there
              Some more genealogy
              His mother's weaving - she was self taught
              Mary MacLean whom he visited in Scotland
              Reads in Gaelic

              Macdonald, Wilma J.